markItUp! is a JavaScript plugin built on the jQuery library. It allows you to turn any textarea into a markup editor. Html, Textile, Wiki Syntax, Markdown, BBcode or even your own Markup system can be easily implemented.

markItUp! is not meant to be a “Full-Features-Out-of-the-Box”-editor. Instead it is a very lightweight, customizable and flexible engine made to meet the developer’s needs in their CMSes, blogs, forums or websites.

Note! markItUp! is not a WYSIWYG editor, and it never will be.

Visit Jay Salvat for more information, examples and to download the source.

Here’s a nice one for all you Liverpool fans - the 10 best goals from 2005-2007;

Or maybe you like this better;

Enjoy!

OCANA, Spain (AFP) - US aircraft maker Boeing flew a plane that was powered by a hydrogen battery at the start of 2008 for the first time in aviation history, senior company officials said in Spain on Thursday.

“For the first time in the history of aviation, Boeing has flown a manned air plane that was powered by a hydrogen battery,” Boeing chief technology officer John Tracy told a news conference at the firm’s research centre in the central Spanish town of Ocana.

The plane, which used propellers, flew at a speed of 100 kilometres (62 miles) an hour for about 20 minutes at an altitude of about 1,000 metres (3,300 feet) using only the hydrogen battery for power, Boeing said in a statement.

Read the rest of this entry at Times Online.

I’ve tried them all with great enthusiasm, at least to begin with. First I lost interest in MySpace as I’m probably to old to stay on a site that looks like a complete and utter mess. Lately I’ve also lost interest in Facebook and I know a lot of other people share my opinion.

Main reason is probably the add-ons which makes your page look more and more like your old MySpace page. Secondly your mail box keeps piling up with superwall, funwall, annoyingwall and other crap messages from Facebook. It’s like signing up and volunteer to receive more SPAM.

To back up my statement I had a look at recent growth trends at compete;

Twitter on the other hand is all about creative macro-blogging. It enables you to tell your friends and colleagues where you are and what you do via the web, IM or mobile, basically from anywhere, with 140 characters or less.

I’ve only just started, but I see a future. Join me if you like…

When Jack Dorsey, one of the people behind the Twitter-consept, received an award at the South by Southwest festival a year ago, he held the following speach:

We’d like to thank you in 140 characters or less. And we just did!

I’d like to hear your opinions on this, will Facebook die over the next few years, along with MySpace (MS will probably never let that happen)? And what about twitter, will the success continue?

Digsby = IM + Email + Social Networks

Digsby is an application that merges all (most of) your on-line services into one. It currently supports the following IM clients: AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, and Jabber. But it doesn’t stop there, it also supports the following email clients: Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, POP, IMAP, AIM/AOL Mail. And if that wasn’t enough for you it also troughs a few social networks in the mix - Facebook, Twitter and MySpace to be exact.

To view exactly what to expect take a look at the features listing and/or some screen shots of Digsby in action.

Before downloading I recommend that you register. That will make the installation process even simpler. After you have downloaded the application and logged in with your new user details you can start adding IM, Email and SN accounts through “Tools -> Preferences” (will most likely pop up automatically).

Simple and intuitive, shouldn’t take you more than a few minutes (as long as you remember all your account details…).

As an added bonus I’ve found Digsby to be very gentle on the memory, and it does support video calls and all the other features found in e.g. MSN. Current version works on Apple, Windows and Linux =

If you decide to give it a try I’d love to hear your first impressions as well.